Quotes of: Independent-films Keyword

There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.

Ryan Gosling

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Shirley Knight

There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

Gaby Hoffmann

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

Romola Garai

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

Sharon Lawrence

It's always been my dream to be in a war film.

Matthew Lewis

The Runaway Five's obvious influence is The Blues Brothers. During localization, their black and white suits were made more colorful to avoid legal action from Universal Pictures or the film's producers. When I told my wife Aviva about this, she admi...

EarthBound

The longing for improvement and the fear of waste and worse - it is a pattern still with us, and maybe it speaks to the medium's essential marriage of light and dark, or as Mary Pickford put it in her autobiography (published in 1955), Sunshine and S...

The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies--and What They Have Done to Us

…Maybe I’ll be watching super-8 home videos,” Alecto told her, smiling bleakly. “I love my super-8 camera, it’s an Eastman Kodak one… Kodak stopped manufacturing them, the world went digital and now Kodak has stopped making Kodachrome fil...

Smog City

Our first point of discussion is the hunt. (...) My idea is to start the film with an image of the vixen locked out of her lair which has been plugged up. Her terror as she's pursued across the country. This is a big deal. It means training a fox fro...

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

It's why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat to a straightforward physical danger from the zombies themselves, rather than our own inability to avoid them and these film...

Nerd Do Well

Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches befor...

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

Selma: You like the movies, don't you? Bill Houston: I love the movies. I just love the musicals. Selma: But isn't it annoying when they do the last song in the films? Bill Houston: Why? Selma: Because you just know when it goes really big... and the...

Dancer in the Dark

Guido: I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest film. No lies whatsoever. I thought I had something so simple to say. Something useful to everybody. A film that could help bury forever all those dead things we carry within ourselv...

8½

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

Ellen Muth

I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.

Ryan Gosling

'Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking.

Reid Scott

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

Carlo Ponti

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

Gene Wilder

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Martin Scorsese

I'll watch anything, from action to art films.

Nathaniel Philbrick